PDC Plus is a 72hr 'Permaculture Design Certification Course' for beginners. Will be accompanied with a participating 'flying team' of practitioners who already hold permaculture certifications. Part of the funds raised is used towards creating a 'Social Business' involving local villagers. HTS i...

First Rental Property retrofit

Not the same after taking the Online PRI PDC Course and Earthworks by PRI Director Geoff Lawton. The 72 hour Online course actually became a 4 month online video course with a quiz and a final design project. Exactly how Bill Mollison was suppose to teach the course. No practicals or going to ...

I started building my mass heater in March'13 using Ianto Evans manual. It was so cold at the time I had to sleep in the heated room straight away. Finishing the mass bench would have made the room too damp. But, even without most of the mass room temperatures went from 3°C to over 20°C which fel...

The MELOS Food Forest project is a newly acquired property and the owners want to transform the area into something similar with our Sto. Domingo Property with some personal touches of their own.

Establish a food forest in Rapha Valley.

Work started on the property in February 2008. The initial direction was to try out different technologies in search of a sustainable means of producing healthy food, compile records and write a computer program to run the farm. It has evolved into a food forest project guided by permaculture ten...

Biochar, it can save the world! Well..can it? After reading biochar revolution, and listening to people who are involved in the biochar movement, you really start to think "wow, I can really save the world!" Now biochar has some great benefits, like creating habitat for micro organisms and carbon...

I just finished watching Back to Eden, a truly inspiring documentary showing just a bit of the massive potential to create heaven on earth with permaculture. You don't have to have faith in God to see the benefits of this kind of food production system. Check it out for free on Vimeo here: http...

Hi all Most of the earthworks have been done and I have nearly finished shaping and mulching the vegetable garden. The new chicken coop/pen has been made, which is uphill of the vegetable garden. Grey water is diverted to the four trenches of the vegetable garden. It can be rotated. The windm...

Hi All We were planning to come in February 2014, but that has been brought forward to the end of November 2013. We have plane tickets! Yay! We have asked the volunteer architect to provide plans within two weeks. So a builder could get an idea of what needs to be done before we even arrive. Th...

Aplicación de la permacultura en un sitio de 6000 m2 para vivienda autosuficiente con todas las comodidades y tecnologías limpias.

Kleines Bildungswerk/Sharing skills and knowledge

Graduation was a success!  Everyone presented their designs and we had a marvelous time learning about permaculture plants , fire ceremony in the night time, pot lucks and even assited Andy with a pond design exercise. Thanks to Andy Firk from Bamboo Grove 

Our first project includes self watering wicker capillary action raised beds , which will eventually be hooked up to our rain catchment system.

Earth Odyssey´s mission is to, build self-sufficient homesteads and villages from the ground up while training and empowering passionate individuals to make their own dreams come true, traveling with intention and connecting to new projects and expanding the network's reach. We envision a wor...

This project is a economically viable, sustainably sound farm producing a variety of food: vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, animals, dairy, honey, seedlings, compost, compost tea and bio-fertilizer.